Fiscal Stress Faced by Local Governments, December 9, 2010
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Strategic Use of Analytics in Government
Strategic Use of Analytics in Government: “Governments use analytics (often described as business intelligence) to enable and drive their strategies and performance in an ever more volatile and turbulent environment. Analytics and fact-based decision making can make a powerful contribution to the achievement of government missions, just as they are now making to the accomplishment… Continue Reading
UK Lawmakers Approve Sharp Increase in Tuition at English Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education: “In a move that drew new rounds of violent protests by students, British lawmakers on Thursday approved a contentious bill to allow universities in England to increase undergraduate tuition to as much as £9,000 a yearor more than $14,000 from the current rate of £3,290. With the bill’s passage in the… Continue Reading
Financial Allocation Study for Texas
Financial Allocation Study for Texas (FAST) Part 1: Executive Summary – “The Financial Allocation Study for Texas examines school spending and student academic achievement. The executive summary provides a quick look at how spending and academic progress stack up in Texas schools. Part 2: FAST Ratings by District and Campus School District Listings Campus Listings… Continue Reading
Over half of Physicians Now Using All or Partial Electronic Medical/Health Records
Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record Systems of Office-based Physicians: United States, 2009 and Preliminary 2010 State Estimates “There has been an increasing trend in EMR/EHR use among office-based physicians from 2001 through the preliminary 2010 estimates (Figure 1). Combined data from the 2009 surveys (mail survey and in-person survey) showed that 48.3% of physicians reported… Continue Reading
CDC: Life Expectancy Declines, Stroke Drops to 4th Leading Cause of Death
National Vital Statistics Reports Volume 59, Number 2 December 9, 2010 – Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2008 “The age-adjusted death rate decreased from 760.2 deaths per 100,000 population in 2007 to 758.7 deaths per 100,000 population in 2008. From 2007 to 2008 age-adjusted death rates decreased significantly for 6 of the 15 leading causes of… Continue Reading
New GAO Report: National Nuclear Security Administration Classified Supercomputing Operations
Information Security: National Nuclear Security Administration Needs to Improve Contingency Planning for Its Classified Supercomputing Operations, GAO-11-67, December 09, 2010 “All three NNSA weapons laboratoriesLos Alamos, Sandia, and Lawrence Livermorehave implemented some components of a contingency planning and disaster recovery program. NNSA, however, has not provided effective oversight to ensure that the laboratories have comprehensive… Continue Reading
Dissent at WikiLeaks spurs claim to launch new whistleblower site
“The pressure on WikiLeaks is increasing. DN.se reveals that several key figures behind the website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational or religious documents have resigned in protest against the controversial leader Julian Assange only to launch a new service for the so-called whistleblowers. The goal: to leak sensitive information… Continue Reading
Quality Measures Workgroup Seeks Comment on Clinical Quality Measures Concepts
Quality Measures Workgroup Seeks Comment on Clinical Quality Measures Concepts for Stage 2 and Stage 3 Meaningful Use by December 23, 2010: “The HIT Policy Committee (a federal advisory committee that advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) formed the Quality Measures Workgroup to recommend new clinical quality measures to leverage the evolving… Continue Reading
Surgeon General – How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease
How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease, A Report of the Surgeon General, December 2010 “More than 1,000 people are killed every day by cigarettes, and one-half of all long-term smokers are killed by smoking-related diseases. A large proportion of these deaths are from early heart attacks, chronic lung… Continue Reading
The Principal Financial Well-Being Index – Summary 4th Quarter 2010
The Principal Financial Well-Being Index – Summary 4th Quarter 2010: “This Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Principal Financial Group® between October 20th and October 28th, 2010, among 1,159 employees and 528 retirees. This is one in a series of quarterly studies… Continue Reading
Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force Announces Results of Largest-Ever Nationwide Operation Targeting Investment Fraud
News release: “Attorney General Eric Holder announced the results of Operation Broken Trust, a nationwide operation organized by the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to target investment fraud. To date, the operation has involved enforcement actions against 343 criminal defendants and 189 civil defendants for fraud schemes that harmed more than 120,000 victims throughout the… Continue Reading
